Anchorite vs Laura - What's the difference?
anchorite | laura |
One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons.
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, title= * 1950 , (Will Durant), The Age of Faith , Simon and Schuster, page 792.
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* ~1591 William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet : Act II, Scene IV:
* 1960 Peter S. Beagle: A Fine And Private Place . Random House Publishing, 1982:The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle. ISBN 0345300815 page 258:
As nouns the difference between anchorite and laura
is that anchorite is one who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons while laura is (historical|roman catholic church) a number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.anchorite
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(hermit)Alternative forms
* * * *Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
- About 1150 some Palestinian anchorites adopted the eremitical rule of St. Basil, and spread throughout Palestine; when the Moslems captured the Holy Land these "Carmelites" migrated to Cyprus, Sicily, France, and England.
Synonyms
*eremite *hermit *recluseReferences
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A definition in Spanish
Anagrams
*laura
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(wikipedia Laura)Alternative forms
* Lora (rare)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in; Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rime her;
- Laura was saying something. A mellifluous name, he thought. I wish she were far away, so I could call her.